Thursday, April 5, 2012

Prague: A Jesus-Free Zone

I am in Prague, Czech Republic for some meetings. I had a free day so I went to spread the Gospel message.
Prague has many beautiful buildings, churches and is in preparation for Easter. There are bands, drinking, dancers, fun stuff and many things happening.
I noticed one big item not present in anything – JESUS! No one would take any of the tracks, either the English ones or Czech language ones.
Then I got an email from Steve saying he and Dayna would be, “...praying God will grant you many opportunities to witness.”Things changed.
There were a couple of people in front on the candy store they work out, handing out samples.
The guy said he spoke English when I gave him a trillion dollar bill to read the message and I said it has a great question on the back.
We spoke a few minutes and he quickly took the conversation away from God.
His associate, Sabrina wanted a bill as well.
She’s Muslim and thinks as long as you are good, ‘god’ will see that and you do not need to pray, go to a church but need to open your heart to ‘god’.
We never sorted out which ‘god’ she was speaking about.
I talked to her about Jesus and He is the Son of God.
She admitted He was a great prophet and one day will return to rule the earth – not Mohammed.
When I told her what John 14:6 says, she again said ‘god’ will know your heart and will decide if you go to heaven or not.
I saw she wanted to go back inside, since her boss came out so I quickly told her that Jesus is the Messiah, and yes He will come back and rule the earth, but before then, she would need to be sure she has repented and her faith and trust in Him.
She left and asked for a tract for her boss..Pray for all of them.

One of the vendors accepted a tract but did not have time to talk.

By then, I needed to return the hotel.

I am so glad Steve and Dayna prayed.

A quick observation: I have been in Europe several times during the Easter season, and it is so sad to see them celebrating this special time in different ways yet always excluding the Savior.

Luke 8:13, “... and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.